The Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting conclusions stressed the need to strongly encourage that training on Union acquis will be made available for legal practitioners through initial and continuous training, reflecting how national and Union legislation interact and influence their everyday practice.

The Council agreed, according to the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting conclusions, to encourage Member States to train legal practitioners, through initial and continuous training, reflecting how national and Union legislation interact and influence their everyday practice. The Council also encourages legal practitioners, in particular judges and prosecutors, on having the possibility of benefitting from at least one week's training on Union acquis and instruments during their career.

The Justice and Home Affairs Council made these conclusions underlining that the contribution that European judicial training could make for the development of a genuine European judicial culture, based on respect for the different legal systems and traditions of the Member States is very important. It therefore invites the Commission to to identify and assess solutions at European level, including European Training Schemes for all professionals involved, for reaching this objective. In addition, it calls on the Commission to build and support the strengths of existing structures, actors and networks, whether national or European, such as the judicial training institutions and the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN).

Other measures asked by the Council to the Commission to put in place are further develop the judicial training section of the European e-Justice Portal, which was launched in July 2010, and further simplify administrative procedures for access to European financial programmes and, within these, make additional funds available for European judicial training.